Simple & to the point. I have been digging through Google & everywhere else I can find to determine the status for Wayland & nVidia with no luck.I have an up-to-date Sid Gnome install using the current (375.82) blob. Nowhere during GDM login do I see a Gnome-Wayland option.Weston works.Anyone have an idea what:a. How far along is Wayland to run &b. What is the status in regards to nVidia

Thank You for any information you might have.

"Let's nobody be dead today----Looks very bad on my report" One of my favorite lines from AVATARLinux User# 395230

Hmmmm... I've read that atricle (was one of the reasons I was interested in the first place). I've dug through the relevant files in my system & there is a /usr/share/wayland-sessions including a weston file. I tried to add sessions there & in a couple of other places including the /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf...all to no affect. Do a

4D696B65 wrote:The little gear symbol next to the sign in button gives ( from memory)gnome x11gnomegnome on x11

Yes--that's what I get + a "Cairo-Dock Gnome" that defaults to the X11 session. I checked & I have what "looks" like all the Weston/Wayland components installed. I tried in another terminal (Ctrl+F2) to start a Wayland session, just not working. (I get an "X session is already running" warning). This is with "Xwayland".

If anyone has any other ideas--please chime in.

"Let's nobody be dead today----Looks very bad on my report" One of my favorite lines from AVATARLinux User# 395230

OK--So after digging into this for a while, I find: Even though Gnome-Session is up to date, Gnome-Shell is at 3.22.3-3 & 3.24 is required for Wayland. Experimental is at 3.26, but the install is blocked by the update to GJS 1.50--which has a blocking bug #874693 - ES6 syntax in 1.48+ breaks packages that redeclare variables with 'let'. I'm wondering how many packages as affected by this (I know Gnome-Weather is one)--If the packages are trivial, I'll pull from Experimental & set the system for Wayland. Does anyone know or do I need to dig into the various packages to find out?

"Let's nobody be dead today----Looks very bad on my report" One of my favorite lines from AVATARLinux User# 395230

I installed the experimental package on my testing system. No packages broke but the shell was unstable and would just crash at times. So I reverted the update back to gnome-shell 3.22 in unstable (on btrfs root system). However, today I see that a point release update 3.26.1 was uploaded into unstable. Maybe you can try that.

pylkko wrote:I installed the experimental package on my testing system. No packages broke but the shell was unstable and would just crash at times. So I reverted the update back to gnome-shell 3.22 in unstable (on btrfs root system). However, today I see that a point release update 3.26.1 was uploaded into unstable. Maybe you can try that.

Thank You.....I am in Sid & the updates came in yesterday. Still not able to start Wayland. Must say that 3.26.1 is very stable on my system. I'm going to look further into "why not" later today---going to see Bladerunner 2049 first (maybe that will put me in the right headspace?)

"Let's nobody be dead today----Looks very bad on my report" One of my favorite lines from AVATARLinux User# 395230

3.26.2 is now in unstable, and is, well, unstable. Crashes every now and then (there are segfault messages in the kernel log refering to libgobject-2.0.so). The entire session disappears, all programs close, the user is logged out, all work lost. I noticed that there are bug reports about this on redhat and gnome bugzilla. It's good that Buster is still on 3.22. I wonder if it will stay like that untill 3.28, since I believe GNOME does not do more point releases than 2 and the Debian maintainers don't want to waste time on something so small. Although, like said in the bug reports, it seems to affect only some hardware and not others.

Edit: this is happening on Wayland only. On x there are occasional shell restarts. This makes sense as on Wayland the shell is the display server, so if the shell crashes the entire session is lost. Seems to be related to notifications.

I've been digging for more information on Wayland. There isn't yet anything in Debian wiki.There is still plenty of information on X Window System.https://wayland.freedesktop.org/ has some useful information. Last release was December 02.My best guess is that Wayland won't be replacing X in the next year or two on Debian or many other distros.